CO Mountain Lion Ballot Initiative: Continuous Updates

[perma]

Justice was served. CO residents took back a little piece of their state today. I’m at peace. Thank you guys for fighting this. Very proud of my home state today.

 

[lastlight]

Congrats CO! We got to keep fighting

 

[npaden]

Proposition 127 results: Ban on mountain lion, bobcat hunting fails

Proposition 127 won in some urban Colorado counties ls most rural communities vote against a ban on mountain lion hunting

coloradosun.com

I hadn't seen the final spending numbers. Interesting to see that the proponents outspent by almost a million dollars ($2.8m spent to support it and $1.9m spent against it) but it still was voted no by what seems to be a good margin to me.

Congratulations Colorado!

 

[Wild Bill]

Good work CO!

And thanks to everyone who worked hard and donated time and/or money on this one. Lots of time and dedication by folks.

 

[Jmnhunter]

wow, this is great to hear, been following this through ME and as a flatlander and one who will probably never hunt/trap cats, I'm glad that this failed. I honestly thought this was going to pass fairly easy due to the language.

 

[nrpate05]

As a former resident of CO (and resident during prop 114 debacle), it is great to see that Coloradoans stepped up and defeated another attempt at circumventing wildlife professionals. Cheers!

 

[TOGIE]

Of course they’re gonna sit back and cry foul of a disingenuous misinformation campaign, it’s the crux of politics.

Water under the bridge. All that matters is the voters saw through their veiled campaign.

Let’s coalesce, not let up, and move on. Big day for Colorado sportsmen and women.

 

[npaden]

It's funny to hear them cry about misleading information by the opponents with the TITLE of the initiative was misleading by having ban Trophy hunting of cats when that was already not even legal and what they were really wanting to do is ban hunting of cats period.

I think that actually hurt them as much as anything. If they can't be honest about the title of the initiative the chances of them being honest about any of it is pretty low.

 

[Ben Lamb]

Nice work CO!

Don't spike the ball. Win with grace.

 

[cedahm]

“Supporters of the measure did not concede Tuesday. At a watch party in Boulder, Cats Aren’t Trophies campaign manager Samantha Miller tearfully said the group had run a “thoughtful, honest and science-based campaign,” which she said ran into misinformation by the opposition. But Miller celebrated the campaign’s progress and votes across the state.”

It's funny to hear them cry about misleading information by the opponents with the TITLE of the initiative was misleading by having ban Trophy hunting of cats when that was already not even legal and what they were really wanting to do is ban hunting of cats period.

Let’s be fair - messaging on both sides of the issue were guilty of mis-information (or at a minimum, over-dramatization). But that’s just ‘politics’ in today’s world.

“...The pack is set loose in nature, tracked by phone app, often aided by drones. It’s a long, raucous, and terrorizing attack on unoffending native animals, who seek safety up a tree. It resembles the canned hunt as wildlife has nowhere to run, no chance to survive.

and...

“...violent predators threatening the safety of our pets, children, and neighborhoods”

We can all be better. (Now cut to @Oak saying ‘stay Golden, Pony Boy’ )

 

[Handlebar]

Will there be any attempt to do a legislative fix to ballot biology or is that even possible?

 

[seeth07]

or is that even possible?

Yes, there are at least ways to help prevent something like this happening again. See post #267. Florida's passed, Arizona's did not.

 

[jrabq]

Great news, I was not optimistic about the outcome.

 

[Forkyfinder]

Nice work CO!

Don't spike the ball. Win with grace.

Spike the ball and pass legislation ensuring it cant happen....

 

[Ben Lamb]

Spike the ball and pass legislation ensuring it cant happen....

Yes, removing freedoms from citizens always leads to great results.

Folks need to think pretty critically here on the next steps. Right now, everything I've seen from you chuckleheads would make we not want to fund you. This thing died with a margin that should worry everyone. Rather than simply pretend like it was a massive dismissal of the anti-hunting crowd, people would be well advised to continue the positive, well thought out approach that the coalition led on for further educational efforts.

Those guys won because they kept it above board and kept the shenanigans to a minimum. Grace, humility and kindness do far more to move people on these issues than bravado and boner pill models.

 

[trb]

Yes, removing freedoms from citizens always leads to great results.

Folks need to think pretty critically here on the next steps. Right now, everything I've seen from you chuckleheads would make we not want to fund you. This thing died with a margin that should worry everyone. Rather than simply pretend like it was a massive dismissal of the anti-hunting crowd, people would be well advised to continue the positive, well thought out approach that the coalition led on for further educational efforts.

Those guys won because they kept it above board and kept the shenanigans to a minimum. Grace, humility and kindness do far more to move people on these issues than bravado and boner pill models.

Ben I am curious your perspective on this: Do you feel that a 2-year, coalition-led educational push culminating in attempting to pass an amendment guaranteeing Coloradans right to and fish like Florida just passed would be the logical next step? It seems to me that would be a way to positively redirect some of the organizational momentum that was built through the 127 opposition efforts.